Egyptian Army

The Egyptian Army is the armed forces of Egypt, founded in 1922. They have fought in warfare as early in World War II and as late as the Egyptian Revolutilon, while they have historically fought five wars with Israel in between the two conflicts.

History
In 1922, Egypt became independent from the United Kingdom and remained a protectorate, but they were now ruled by their own monarchs. Egypt created an army and it gained its first experience in warfare during World War II, fighting against Nazi Germany on the North African Front of the war from 1940 to 1943. Egyptian forces also served in the Middle East theater of war with Vichy France, Nazi Germany (who took over the former French colonies in the region after the 1940 fall of France), and Iraq. The Egyptian Army also fought by itself during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948, when they were led by their own commanders. The Egyptian military eventually overthrew the Kingdom of Egypt and formed a presidential dictatorship under Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom they fought Israel during the 1956 Suez War, the 1967 Six-Day War, the 1967-1970 War of Attrition, and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In 1977, President Anwar Sadat recognized Israel as an independent country and the Egyptian Army focused on fighting off an invasion by the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in the 1980s and putting down rebellions in the country after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Currently, the Egyptian Army is made up of 1,468,500 people, including 1,000,000 reservists.